By allowing the virus to be unleashed in a controlled way for the next seven months would give 60% of the country’s people immunity by November, and thus halt the disease Controversial given the high risk of deaths, a coronavirus strategy discarded by the UK is being touted as the solution for poor but young countries like India.
The herd immunity strategy, which would allow a majority of the population to gain resistance to the virus by becoming infected and then recovering, could result in less economic devastation and human suffering than restrictive lockdowns designed to stop the virus’s spread, a number of experts have begun to argue in the nation of 1.3 billion people. “No country can afford a prolonged period of lockdowns, and least